Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka, 352 pages.
This book takes place on a bullet train from Tokyo that is absolutely chock full of assassins. Like ridiculously full of assassins. Everyone is there pursuing their own mission, and (as they begin to realize the truly absurd number of other professionals on the train) do their best to not be noticed by the others, as it slowly becomes clear whose agendas are driving the events.
This was a really fun book, and I'm especially fond of the assassin who is essentially a walking case of Murphy's law. It's a pretty tight novel that's listed as a satirical thriller, which sounds at least more or less right, but it's mostly a lot of deeply weird characters in weird situations trying to get everything sorted out.
LOVED this book! (And the movie's pretty darn awesome too, which is nice to see in an adaptation.)
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